 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...extract is taken, was among the most eloquent orators and most able statesmen of England. IT is now some years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. 0! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1859 - 454 pages
...— Encyclopaedia Americana. t "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Qneen of France at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb,...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy." — Burke's Reflections. % Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan, i., 75.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...and be comforted. THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Glueen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy! Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to con template without emotion... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...compass. t DRYDEN. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since 4 I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...Marie Antoinette is one of the most eloquent and impassioned of these Reflections: " It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was just beginning to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy! Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to con template without emotion... | |
 | Judith Pascoe - 1997 - 284 pages
...of his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke recalls his encounter with the queen in 1773: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - 1993 - 312 pages
...ed. JT Boulton [Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1958], 114). On Marie Antoinette: ". . . surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in. . . " (Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien [New York: Penguin Books,... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...the hands of the revolutionaries with his 'delightful vision' of her during his last visit to France: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in, - glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! What a revolution ! and what an heart must I... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pages
...1789 visto of the "furies of hell" into the reassuring 1774 visto of the dauphiness at Versailles. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
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It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... 
